Welcome to AI Current. Today: SpaceX agrees to buy the company behind the Cursor coding tool, DeepSeek closes its first outside funding round, OpenAI ships a life-sciences benchmark and a model update, and Anthropic's newest models stay offline under a US export order. Here's what happened over the last 24–48 hours →

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OpenAI releases LifeSciBench, a 750-task life-sciences benchmark. OpenAI published LifeSciBench, a benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life-science research. It contains 750 expert-authored tasks across seven workflows and seven biological domains, was built with input from 173 scientists, and grades answers against expert-written rubrics; the company says about 79% of tasks require multiple reasoning steps. OpenAI reported that its strongest model passed 36.1% of the tasks, framing the result as a measure of remaining headroom rather than a solved problem. Read more →

OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind, its life-sciences model. OpenAI added new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind, combining the model with GPT-5.5's agentic coding and tool use. The company reported gains on research tasks—for example 27.5% versus 25.1% for GPT-5.5 on its MedChemBench evaluation while using fewer tokens—and said the model can now link experimental perturbations to outcomes to help troubleshoot lab protocols. OpenAI also introduced a free Life Sciences research plugin for Codex connecting to more than 50 scientific tools and data sources, with the update available in research preview to eligible organizations. Read more →

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SpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor maker Anysphere for about $60 billion. SpaceX said it will buy Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock transaction valued at roughly $60 billion. The company expects the deal to close in the third quarter, pending regulatory approval, and described it as a way to strengthen its in-house software development. The agreement follows an option SpaceX took in April and comes days after the company's public listing. Read more →

DeepSeek closes its first external funding round at over $50 billion. The Chinese lab DeepSeek raised more than $7.4 billion in its first outside funding round, valuing the company above $50 billion. The structure was unusual: commercial backers including Tencent and battery maker CATL accepted a five-year lock-up and no voting rights, while China's state-linked National AI Industry Investment Fund received direct equity and voting rights. The round makes the Hangzhou-based company China's most valuable AI startup. Read more →

Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 stay offline under a US export order. Anthropic's newest models remained suspended worldwide as the company negotiated with the US government. The Commerce Department issued an export-control directive on June 12 restricting foreign-national access to the models, and Anthropic took them offline in response. Company engineers met with Commerce officials on June 15–16; as of June 17 no restoration date had been announced. Read more →

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